When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
AISHA HINDSThank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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A space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our country is offering a seat at the table to all the voices to be heard, a murder mystery, and grassroots look at our own humanity as we move through the parts and pieces of the story.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
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The masterful work of the DP [Director of Photography] Kevin McKnight and his crew, and the layers and depths each actor goes to to ensure we the audience feel a human connection to these characters led me to sign my name on the dotted line.
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.
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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
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